New Britain Man Faces Theft Charges

East Hartford Police News

A New Britain man was charged Tuesday in connection with a break-in at a King Street apartment in the spring and the theft of more than $2,000 worth of electronic equipment and tools, police said.

Jose Barrios, 27, of 102 Gold St., admitted breaking into the apartment May 17 by smashing a window with a brick, police said. He also has been charged by Windsor police in connection with several residential burglaries in that town.

Police said that Barrios became a suspect in the King Street break-in based on a description given by members of a road-paving crew that had helped him push his disabled car out of the street that day.

Barrios was arrested on a warrant charging him with third-degree burglary, third-degree larceny and third-degree criminal mischief. He was being held late Tuesday in lieu of $5,000 bail after being arraigned in Manchester Superior Court, where he is scheduled to return March 21.